(urth) Another (Possibly Weak) Theory

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

Would this explain the green eyes? That is, to the extent that these people also evolved from primates on Earth as we did, they are human, but they are physically marked as another race?
I personally accept the recent-lost-colony origin hypothesis, but I can see how the ancient-lost-colony hypothesis fits some of Wolfe's favorite themes, including the near-repetition of events over cosmic stretches of time. And the Shee (if I may call them that), if they survived on Earth (as they must have done to be real at all, because otherwise humans would not know them), were very interested in hiding themselves from men, using magic to do so. Their descendants might well have psychic star-shields.
Is there a way in which the recent-origin hypothesis can be reconciled with the ancient-origin hypothesis? Can both be true? The Shee were not exactly tool-users to begin with, even on Earth. Of course, if we are expected to know that, then the links to them may simply be by analogy. 

--- On Thu, 1/6/11, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
Subject: (urth) Another (Possibly Weak) Theory
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 4:12 PM



So let's look at a Very Very Long Time Ago, in a place
that has no name in English but which we might call
Atlantis, Mu, or Gondwanaland. There was a race,
which was not precisely what we would call _human_,
that developed, among other things, the ability to
travel to the stars, not necessarily with the aid of
"starcrosser" technology. (See, for example, Peter
Hamilton's "Silfen.")  We might have called them
elves, or faerie.

A Very Very Long Time Ago, their culture was
completely(?) wiped out, possibly by a massive
tectonic event. But some of them were left on
Ste. Anne.

I haven't quite decided to my satisfaction what
happened next: either they _became_ the shape-
changing abos, or they were imitated _by_ them.

Any suggestions to "plump out" this theory would
be appreciated.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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